e cities, there is more negative feeling directed toward sufferers, and rural farm families may totally collapse when impacted by AIDS. The young adult who are generally impacted by AIDS are the foundation of the labor force. They are also likely to have young children who may be orphaned if both parents become infected, or may be infected themselves if there mother unknowingly carried the virus in utero.
At the same time, drugs which are now available to keep people alive longer are generally not accessible to people in poor countries. The drug cocktails that have slowed the death rate in the United States cost literally thousands of dollars each month. Some of the developing countries have countered by manufacturing generic drugs off of the drug companies patents that are available for much lower costs. However, they are being fought by the major drug companies, with great pressure brought to bear on them. Indeed, even the World Health Organization has negotiated an agreement with the five major American a
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